One of the most impressive NVIDIA RTX Remix mods currently in development is certainly the Need for Speed Underground RTX remaster by alessandro893, which received another showcase video recently.
This NVIDIA RTX Remix mod features path-traced global/direct illumination, upscaled textures, and more than 1,000 lights added. Some textures were generated by Stable Diffusion. The modder said this is his first work, and he's working on it alone. It is an early Alpha version, though 80% of the lighting job is done. Some of the cars are matte, and only a few cars (Skyline, MX5) have headlights at this moment.
To install the NVIDIA RTX Remix NFS: Underground mod, follow this procedure. Download the latest version (v0.0.4a), then unzip and copy the content of the mod directory into the game's root folder, respecting this file hierarchy:
mod
└ .trex
└ d3d9.dll
└ dinput8.dll
└ dxvk.conf
└ NvRemixLauncher32.exe
└ rtx-remix
└ rtx.conf
└ scripts
└ SNDSTREAMS (optional, lossless audio)
└ Sound (optional, lossless audio)
The rendering resolution is set to 4K by default. To set a custom resolution, users may edit the "scripts/NFSUnderground.WidescreenFix.ini" file. As for the original video settings of Need for Speed: Underground, the modder recommends setting everything to High except shadows and reflections.
For a higher quality video showcase, check out Digital Dreams' video below.
In other NVIDIA news, the GeForce NOW cloud platform just received a few major additions to its library. The newly released games Men of War II and Die by the Blade are supported on GFN via Steam; if you want to read our take on the latter, check out Francesco's review.
This week's NVIDIA GeForce NOW Thursday update also adds support for the first-person strategy game Colony Survival (on Steam), Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition (on the Xbox app and PC Game Pass), and, last but not least, 2024's earliest and most unexpected commercial success: Palworld.
